A Russian man was shocked today after finding himself in Tajikistan instead of southern Russia where he thought he arrived. The news about the passenger who got on a wrong flight has caused many people to laugh.

According to news agency Asia-Plus[1] [ru], Yevgeny Samoshkin was travelling from Yakutsk to a southern Russian city of Kurgan[2] via Moscow. At an airport in Moscow, the 19-year-old student bought a ticket to a wrong destination – the town of Kurgan-Tyube[3] in southern Tajikistan. Without double-checking his ticket, Samoshkin boarded the flight and arrived in Tajikistan. The interesting thing is that the young man did not realize he was in a foreign country before exiting the airport.

Russian guy tries to fly to Kurgan, ends up in Kurgan-Tyube: http://t.co/n3xuOyk3jK[6] He sees 1000s of Tajiks and thinks he's still in Russia. — Christian Bleuer (@ChristianBleuer) February 28, 2014[7]

This guy must have been shocked after landing at Tajikistan's Kurgan-Tube instead of Russia's Kurgan http://t.co/hvq34ps5Su[8]